Bug 207051

Summary:	Dolphin does not respect standard ASCII character ordering in file lists
Product:	[Applications] dolphin	Reporter:	cor <moz>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Peter Penz <peter.penz19>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	frank78ac
Priority:	NOR
Version:	16.12.2
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Ubuntu
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description cor 2009-09-11 10:35:35 UTC

Version:           1.3 (using KDE 4.3.1)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Ubuntu Packages

Space, braces, plus signs, all that stuff comes BEFORE the letter "A". Dolphin completely ignores this and does it's own thing.

Because of this, logical ordering of file listings is not possible, and existing orderings are ruined.

Please get Dolphin to accept the international ASCII standard for character ordering. 
In no universe does " Foo" come after "Bar"!

Comment 1 Frank Reininghaus 2009-09-11 12:33:44 UTC

Thanks for the report! The unexpected sorting behaviour you describe is due to "Natural Sorting". This way of sorting ensures, e.g., that "Image9.jpg" is sorted before "Image10.jpg" and not the other way around. However, sometimes natural sorting might not be desirable, like in your case.

KDE 4.4 will have an option to disable natural sorting.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 169883 ***

Comment 2 cor 2009-09-11 13:36:07 UTC

Ahh.. I see! This sounds sounds slightly Windows-esque, but highly useful *if done right*. Thanks for the heads-up and link (I swear, I did search! heh).

I look forward to being able to disable it in 4.4! Preferably on a per-folder basis - in some places (like "cam images in") this functionality could be real handy.

Cheers!